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:: Former Presidential Rights Adviser Says Russian System Turned Into 'Rock-Solid Insult To All Of Us'
"This country no longer has politics or politicians or normal political parties or real elections." ... RFE/RL; JRL 2011-80, May 5, 2011

NewsLinks

:: LINK: US Embassy Moscow February 2008 cable on "Russian Prisons" - U.S. Embassy Moscow/Wikileaks - JRL 2010-238
:: NEWSLINK: Punishing the Patient: Russia’s prisonlike psychiatric hospitals are overdue for reform - Transitions Online 11-1-10/JRL 2010-205
:: NEWSLINK: Political rights situation in Russia gets better - ITAR-TASS 12-9-10/JRL 2010-228
:: NEWSLINK: Presidential human rights council proposes "de-Stalinization" measures - Russia Today 11-30-10/JRL 2010-224
:: NEWSLINK: Russia could shun European rights court -- top judge - Reuters 11-22-10/JRL 2010-219

:: Court Backs Arrest of Magnitsky Colleague
The Tverskoi District Court sanctioned the arrest of Cherkasov, as Browder denounced Russia's judiciary as working hand in hand with criminals ... Nikolaus von Twickel, Moscow Times; JRL 2011-80, May 5, 2011
:: Russia may order arrest of Hermitage Capital CEO - paper
The Russian Investigative Committee may soon order the arrest of Hermitage Capital head William Browder amid a controversial tax evasion case that led to the death in custody of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky ... RIA Novosti; JRL 2011-80, May 5, 2011
:: U.S. Slams Russia on Human Rights
The State Department's "2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices" listed Russia and Belarus as countries where "abuses were especially serious" ... Moscow Times; JRL 2011-64, April 11, 2011
:: Article 31 Protesters Set Sights on Vote
Strategy 31 rallies have aimed to draw attention to Article 31 of the Constitution, which grants the right to free assembly ... Alexander Bratersky; Moscow Times; JRL 2011-56, March 30, 2011
:: Marshalling Rights: Presidential Council on Human Rights to Produce a New Development Strategy for Human Rights Protection by the End of the Year
The Head of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov and two of his colleagues spoke to journalists about its plans ... Rosemary Griffin, Russia Profile; JRL 2011-53, March 23, 2011

:: Can De-Stalinization Save Russia?
Medvedev has approved a program for commemorating victims of totalitarianism and Stalin's terror, giving a green light on an official, government-sponsored campaign of de-Stalinization ... Vladimir Frolov, Vladimir Belaeff, Alexandre Strokanov, Russia Profile; JRL 2011-26, Feb. 14, 2011
:: Speech by Sergei A. Karaganov at a meeting of the Council on Civil Society and Human Rights: Project On the Perpetuation of the Memory of the Victims of the Totalitarian Regime and on National Reconciliation
"Its main goal is to ensure transformation of the consciousness of both Russian society and the Russian elite. I am convinced that modernization of the country will be impossible either at the technical or on the political level without changing the consciousness of society ... Sergei A. Karaganov; JRL 2011-21, Feb. 7, 2011
:: Playwrights, Actors Lash Out Against State
In response to the recent sentencing of Russian politician Boris Nemtsov to 15 days in jail, Ugarov publicly called for people to bring their old, unwanted chairs and leave them at the doorstep of the Tverskoi Court where the trial was held ... John Freedman, Moscow Times; JRL 2011-8, Jan. 12, 2011
:: Russia's Howard Beale Moment?
Must-see viewing for anyone with even a passing interest in Russia or the muzzling of the free press .... Andy Heil, RFE/RL; JRL 2011-8, Jan. 12, 2011
:: Russia Lawyer Risks Jail in Investor Campaign Against Transneft
Navalny said few people in power have backed him in the case of Transneft, which carries more than 9 million barrels of oil a day, enough to meet China's demand for the fuel ... Henry Meyer, Jason Corcoran, Bloomberg; JRL 2011-7, Jan. 11, 2011
:: The Khodorkovsky Omen
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a clear and chilling signal on Dec. 16 that the "soft autocracy" of his first decade in power will become more oppressive in his second decade ... Michael Bohm, Moscow Times; JRL 2011-7, Jan. 11, 2011
:: Russia's pro-Kremlin youth group launches smear campaign against jailed opposition leader
The pro-Kremlin youth nationalist movement Stal (Steel) has launched a campaign against Russian jailed opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov, mulling the rumors that the politician had been sexually abused ... RIA Novosti; JRL 2011-7, Jan. 11, 2011
:: Head of Kremlin Human Rights Council: Law on Rallies, Demos Needs Changing
The arrests of activists who have been demonstrating outside a jail in Moscow where opposition leaders Boris Nemtsov, Ilya Yashin, Eduard Limonov and Konstantin Kosyakin are being kept in custody provide evidence that the law needs changing, Mikhail Fedotov told Interfax ... Interfax; JRL 2011-2; Jan. 4, 2011

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